entertaining blurbs – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:24:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Sold! /College/translation/threepercent/2009/03/30/sold/ /College/translation/threepercent/2009/03/30/sold/#respond Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:59:25 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2009/03/30/sold/ I can’t remember ever buying a book based on a blurb, but even if I wasn’t already a Thomas Bernhard fan, I’d buy his Meine Preise immediately if this blurb were on the cover:

“The asshole Thomas Bernhard—and I say this even though I dislike speaking ill of the dead—the asshole Thomas Bernhard, it’s fairly certain to say, only wrote a single good book. This book appears only now, even though he already wrote it in 1980, and it demonstrates what an asshole he was.”—Maxim Biller, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung

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